Psychological Resilience and Stress Coping Styles in Migraine Patients

Abstract

It was aimed to determine the level of psychological resilience and to investigate the psychological and clinical parameters that affect the resilience level in migraine patients. Patients and Methods: A total of 100 migraine patients and 100 healthy controls who agreed to participate in the study filled in the sociodemographic data form and also Beck Anxiety Scale, Beck Depression Scale, Psychological Resilience Scale for Adults, Perceived Stress Scale, Stress Coping Styles Scale, and Psychological Well-Being Scale. Also, the results of Migraine Disability Assessment Scale (MIDAS) were recorded in order to determine the clinical parameters of migraine patients. Results: When the migraine patients were examined in terms of the number of painful days in the last 3 months, duration of illness, and correlations between clinical scales, there were statistically significant correlations between the psychological resilience scale and well-being (r=0.691 p<0.001), positive coping styles (r=0.676 p<0.001), Beck depression scale (r=−0.670 p<0.001). Conclusion: Self-confident approach, social support-seeking approach, and level of psychological well-being predict psychological resilience in migraine patients. Interventions aiming to increase the level of psychological resilience, which is negatively correlated with depression, are expected to increase the quality of life of patients with migraine.

Cognitive reserve and well-being in migraine patients: a multidimensional approach to migraine assessment in an Italian tertiary headache center

“…Consistent with our correlation findings, the ANOVA performed revealed that patients with migraine with medium CR reported significantly lower levels of depression and an increased sense of pleasure in life, as well as lower pain interference, compared to those with medium-to-low CR. Hence, also these results point to the need of promoting, especially in migraine patients, problem-and support-oriented coping strategies (14,38) that could prevent cognitive, emotional, and functional impairment.…”

“…Following this new paradigm, the cognitive dimension results as a vital component of the subjective perception of pain requiring cognitive-evaluation, learning, recall of past experi-ences, and active decision making. Most clinical studies, focused on neurological disorders such as migraine, have found an impairment of cognitive abilities (14,15). This remarks the close connection between pain and cognitive functioning (16,17).…”

Comparison of Resilience and Depression in Children and Adolescents with Epilepsy and Healthy Controls

“…In a study conducted by Oguz A. et al at Dokuz Eylül University in 2002 was determined that epilepsy-related factors such as duration of epilepsy, seizure frequency, and polytherapy increased anxiety and depression, while seizure onset age, seizure type, and electroencephalographic findings were not associated with anxiety and depression [34]. In our study, as in Dokuz Eylul, seizure onset age, seizure type, and EEG findings were not correlated with RCADS-CV depression scores, but unlike the study, RCADS-CV depression scores were also found to be unrelated with gender, number of siblings, frequency of seizures, seizure type, seizure time, AED type and polytherapy (Table 4,5).…”

Health equity, care access and quality in headache – part 1

“…The etiology of migraine is not well understood but it is hypothesized that is a multifactorial disease influenced by numerous factors including genetic, epigenetic but also lifestyle, personal history and environmental factors [ 76 , 90 ]. People living in areas with high air pollution, exposure to toxins, lack of access to water, frequent changes in weather conditions, and poor nutrition experience greater psychosocial stress, which affects the course of the disease [ 91 , 92 ].…”